The GTX 280M Overclocking and Benchmarking Results Thread

i got the Np5797 with the 9800m GTX, wonder where i can get my hands on a GTX 280m?? or am i unable to upgrade it!?!?

 

Been playing Crysis for about 2 hours at 625/1625/1000 and it's definitely stable. I'm running DX9 CCC level 4 at 1680 x 1050, it's playable but it's beginning to chug, I'm dipping to 20 on the Relic level right now, but most the time it's 25-35 FPS. Max temp was 79C on the Zalman. Keep in mind I'm overvolted and pushing high clocks...the P9600 maxes at 45C

I'm using stock drivers, are there better drivers specifically for Crysis?

 

that is exactly the kind of stuff I want to hear about the 280M. I am currently waiting for prices to drop a little, but I will probably get one by the end of the next month.

 

well...the card is rated at 108 degrees...that's about 18 degrees more working room that the 9800m gtx. so given that...you can run as high as 95 to 100 degrees

can we get you to run vantagemark?

 

mr M.A that is a nice score

 

it looks like the 280m overclocked is very close to the 3870 in crossfire stock. the would be the first single video card to beat my crossfire. i wonder. your vantage gpu score is way to close to mine. i am going to re run and see.

 

he hasn't ran vantagemark yet....

 

i was looking at anothergeek's sig

 

aaah, makes since.
thought you were talking about mr m a.
he has a qx9300 now we can see what the 280m will do.

 

i am waiting for him to post his also. if he beats me i half to come back. i am installing 8.10 Now.

 

lol!
we all have to accept a loss from time to time. it goes with the changing of times...

 

I'm impressed he got 13.5k on 06. My highest is 11,660 (stock driver), I know I can get higher, maybe 12k with a better driver, but I'm lazy... It's nice to know 14k is in the realm of possibility.

 

it's a two class scoring thing. you two are not in the same class.
your dual core he is quad core. it makes a very big difference in 3dmark06.

and you should be in the 12k range.... you would need to be cpu over clocking...

 

i guess your right. but i am still going to fight. Lol.

 

but of course! what fun would it be to give up?
keep pushing the limits of the whitebook! and if she gets a new set of vga's...watch out...she will be right back in it

 

i know i dont worry because you haven't seen the last of the MOO

 

positive attitudes all around...

 

Yeah I know. I chose the P9600 for the good price/performance ratio. If new games benefit from it more or if I really just want the highest 06 score... I can upgrade later. 12k is the limit for my CPU speed, if I can even hit that.

 

right now farcry2 supports quad cores big time. and i think the unreal engine. i have to install ut3. its somewhere here. i know it's definitely dual core. but i'm not sure about quad.

 

price performance?
i bought a qx9650 because that's all i could afford my self.

and a p9600 can be over clocked to like 3. something ghz right now....if you can find out what your pll is for the motherboard and it's unlocked.

 

Found myself a new Crysis driver! Dox's 182.46

Comparing my "playability" benches (DX9 1680 x 1050 CCC Level 4 625/1625/1000) from stock drivers, min fps is up 5 frames, average is up 3 frames, and max is up 5 frames, to 25.95, 36.40, and 47.34. Quite a boost for a driver switch alone IMO

 

ummm, what did you get using dx10?

 

What tools do you use to overclock the 280m? I have the 5797 the rivatuner doesnt work and the ntune from nvidia sucks.

 

Nvidia's system tools 6.03. Or what you'd call ntune... hey, it raises the clocks, I'm not complaining. I like rivatuner, but I didn't get driver support. I'll try the new 185.81 when I have the time, perhaps Rivatuner will work with it.

 

6.03 ntune does not suck.
and you use ntune it to over clock and rivatuner to adjust the cards performance.

 

I dont know if I got a old ntune verson but it doesnt work at all for me every time i go to video setting it crashes my windows and reboots.

 

then download .net framework and see what happens.

 

hm im getting 10850 with dox' 182 driver and p9600 stock clocks for both

 

that's it?

 

Download this. I uploaded it myself, so don't worry.

 

I was having the same issue and this fixed it perfectly. Thanks

 

after flashing my 280 here is my vantage score @690-1000-1725
http://mousa101.googlepages.com/7498.jpg

and an update of my 3dmark06 @690-1030-1725
http://mousa101.googlepages.com/13869.jpg

currently i'm trying to get what (Dox)182.05 can give then i'll try other drivers

 

nice scores mr m.a.!

if you want to break records..you'll need to use 185.20 for vantage and edit 176.09 with adding your gpu strings. then bench them.

 

Im a total noob when it comes to overclocking I finally got ntune to work but everytime I overclock my 280m it says display driver failer when i play games what am I doing wrong? oh yes my driver is 179.27

 

you'll need to probably flash a higher voltage to your cards first...

 

Ok thanks lol now how the hell you do that?

 

its in the previous pages .....

 

Got a new LG 32" 120hz 1080p LCD yesterday, so I'll be able to do some 1080p benchmarks soon to compare to 18.4" laptops, like the W90. And it'll tell us if that 1GB memory really helps. The screen is brilliant, and I finally came back to Bioshock and I'm actually enjoying it now! Smooth as butter at 60 FPS, 1080p, DX10, and it's more enjoyable eased back with a 360 controller.

 

I saw the LG 32" 120hz 1080p is on sale at Best Buy this week. I'm contemplating swapping out my 4yr old 30" Apple (which is starting to show some image wear and tear) for a 32-40" high end HDTV LCD.

 

got me a 11.45k with 600/950/1500 but the software crashes with anything higher than that... temp was amazing aswell, never went over 68 degrees while playing world in conflict for a few hours. this is magnificent coming from an endlessly overheating (100 degrees + constant) Asus G1s.

attempting to up the voltage soon


PS: dont use vista with anything less than 4gb of ram. i forgot to upgrade and ive been running with 2gb for a couple weeks now and its horrible

 

your computer isn't over heating....your rated at 108'c with an over head of 8'c so that's a total of 116 degrees Celsius

 

what driver? stock?

 

got 7719 in Vantage - gpu : 6163 with clocks @690-1020-1725

and i think there is still room for a higher score
btw the first scores i got where with 2 Gb of ram and now i got the Kingston HyperX CL5 4Gb... i don't know if it helps rising the scores or not, but windows now boots and responses faster

 

I should retry my benching if you're getting that high, I was having trouble getting core and shader past 660/1690 with memory 1025... I'm sure you used 185.20 as well, so it can't be the driver.

 

was using dox 182

 

there is plenty of room to get higher, but you need to figure out how to over clock the cpu and raise the front side bus. else the best you'll probably get is 6250 gpu (speculation on scoring)

 

anothergeek
yes, i used 185.20 for the last score

and the cpu is overclocked all the time from the bios to 2.9
the question is how to get SetFSP to work with it?!!

 

you'll need to take the laptop either partially apart or fully apart. and find the ics chip and crysal on the motherboard.
looks something like this
http://www.plasma-online.de/index.h...a-online.de/english/identify/picture/ics.html
the crystal chip will be right next to it some where.. and have a number like 14318 printed on top of it.

 

Mr.M.A., will you do the Vantage GPU tests at stock clocks please?

 

its funny that i only ran 3dmark06 once at stock clocks since i bought it and never with Vantage until today

and I found something interesting,there is a huge difference between the original driver (179.27) 5113
and (185.20) 6199 (both are in windows 7)

slightly slower in vista (185.20) 6169

thanx, i'll try to find that number, hopefully...



im currently using windows 7 RC1 ,it's working perfectly and all the drivers & my programs installed without problems